Okay but my favorite thing about Dallas Les Mis wasn’t the Amis or Fantine or JVJ or even Eponine (even though they were all amazing)—it was the police.
The police officer beating a prisoner in the first scene.
Javert with sunglasses and a clipboard, not even really seeing the man he’s setting free.
Javert forcing Jean Valjean to his knees at gunpoint during confrontation.
The officers in riot gear walking casually around the barricade immediately after Enjolras’s triumphant death, faceless, radios crackling, carrying on with their jobs and cleaning up the mess.
The police-line-don’t-cross tape keeping the women away from the dead in Turning.
It was the police, more than anything else, that made this production seem real, like it could be happening right now. Which is so powerful and important—because it is. So many of the themes and situations in this story are just as real today as they were in the 1800s.
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